TY  - JOUR
  - Gibbon, F.E., ; Wood, S.E.
  - 2003
  - August
  - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
  - Using electropalatography (EPG) to diagnose and treat articulation disorders associated with mild cerebral palsy: a case study.
  - Validated
  - ()
  - 17
  - 4-5
  - 365
  - 74
  - Some children with mild cerebral palsy have articulation disorders that are resistant to conventional speech therapy techniques. This preliminary study investigated the use of electropalatography (EPG) to diagnose and treat a long-standing articulation disorder that had not responded to conventional speech therapy techniques in an 8-year-old boy (D) with a congenital left hemiplegia. The targets for EPG therapy were speech errors affecting velar targets /k, g, eta/, which were consistently fronted to alveolar placement [t, d, n]. After 15 sessions of EPG therapy over a 4-month period, D's ability to produce velars improved significantly. The EPG data revealed two features of diagnostic importance. The first was an unusually asymmetrical pattern of tongue-palate contact and the second was unusually long stop closure durations. These features are interpreted as a subtle form of impaired speech motor control that could be related to a mild residual neurological deficit. The results suggest that EPG is of potential benefit for diagnosing and treating articulation disorders in individuals with mild cerebral palsy.
  - 0269-9206 (Print)0269-92
  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve;db=PubMed;dopt=Citation;list_uids=12945612
DA  - 2003/08
ER  - 

@article{V17503079,
   = {Gibbon, F.E.,  and  Wood, S.E.},
   = {2003},
   = {August},
   = {Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics},
   = {Using electropalatography (EPG) to diagnose and treat articulation disorders associated with mild cerebral palsy: a case study.},
   = {Validated},
   = {()},
   = {17},
   = {4-5},
  pages = {365--74},
   = {{Some children with mild cerebral palsy have articulation disorders that are resistant to conventional speech therapy techniques. This preliminary study investigated the use of electropalatography (EPG) to diagnose and treat a long-standing articulation disorder that had not responded to conventional speech therapy techniques in an 8-year-old boy (D) with a congenital left hemiplegia. The targets for EPG therapy were speech errors affecting velar targets /k, g, eta/, which were consistently fronted to alveolar placement [t, d, n]. After 15 sessions of EPG therapy over a 4-month period, D's ability to produce velars improved significantly. The EPG data revealed two features of diagnostic importance. The first was an unusually asymmetrical pattern of tongue-palate contact and the second was unusually long stop closure durations. These features are interpreted as a subtle form of impaired speech motor control that could be related to a mild residual neurological deficit. The results suggest that EPG is of potential benefit for diagnosing and treating articulation disorders in individuals with mild cerebral palsy.}},
  issn = {0269-9206 (Print)0269-92},
   = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve;db=PubMed;dopt=Citation;list_uids=12945612},
  source = {IRIS}
}